Music has always played an important role in Funeral services. Browse our sheet music and scores, and let Stretta help you find the right music today.
Since the 13th century, clergymen have gathered in calendar brotherhoods on the calends, the first days of each month, to remember their deceased brothers. As at the funerals themselves, there was extensive singing. Later, choirs emerged from this ritual, to perform motets at funerals, in church or at the grave.
In addition to settings of Requiems, the Dutch composers of the 15th and 16th centuries wrote funeral motets to commemorate princes and rulers, which continued to spread across Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, with settings such as Handel’s Funeral Music for Queen Caroline, Musical Exequies by Heinrich Schütz and Purcells’s Funeral Music for Queen Mary. This began to expand into the secular world with works like Monteverdi’s Lamento d‘Arianna.
In France, the Sarabande was the most popular lament before the funeral march developed in the late 18th century. In the last century, new works such as dirges and epitaphs have entered the repertoire as expressions of mourning and grief.
Nowadays, pop or rock songs are often played at funerals. Here is a list of popular modern songs for funeral ceremonies:
BWV 244
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116686
Tanti Anni Prima
for: Bandoneon (soloist), piano, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 157618
aus den "Kinderszenen", op. 15
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2141
Leicht spielbare Stücke aus Barock, Klassik und Romantik
für Orgel (manualiter, Pedal ad lib.)
for: Organ (manuals, ped. ad lib)
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 630821
Die 100 schönsten Melodien von Klassik bis Pop für Klavier – leicht arrangiert
for: Piano
Music score (anthology), 3 CDs
Item no.: 364629
Musik für Gottesdienst, Konzert und Unterricht
for: Organ
Music score (anthology), CD
Item no.: 684636
for: Voice (high), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1819
41 songs for voice & keyboard
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 336425
for: Cello [bassoon], piano
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1852
Transcription de Mason James
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Score
Item no.: 329663
12 beliebte Melodien in leichten Orgelbearbeitungen
Ausgabe mit Pedal
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 647771
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), 1-2 Trompeten, 3-2 Posaunen, Orgel, [Pauken]
Score
Item no.: 235638
für (Mezzo-)Sopran und B.c. (komplett) (complete)
for: GES-M BC
Score, Parts
Item no.: 278583
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 176998
Suite d'Orchestre
Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695811
Chorsätze für konfessionsverbindende Gottesdienste bei Gedenktagen und Katastrophenfällen
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 582505
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 283838
for vocal duet and piano (low key)
for: 2 voices (medium, low), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 611104
Playalong for Saxophone – Golden Edition
Aus der Reihe "Guest Spot"
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 554519
40 Favourite Songs and Arias
Oxford Music for Voice
for: Voice (low), piano [organ]
Item no.: 154204
Version for Medium Voice and Piano. In the key of B Flat.
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 276859
for: Voice (high/medium), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 764779
35 Beautiful Pieces
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 758497
Begräbnismusik in drei Teilen für Singstimmen und Basso continuo
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe Urtext
for: 8 voices (SSAATTBB), organ, bass; mixed choir (SSATTB), 6 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 423286
Actus tragicus. Trauermusik
BWV 106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233628
"Actus tragicus"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 167439
50 Solo Songs for Special Occasions from Weddings to Funerals
for: Voice (high), piano [organ]
Music score (anthology), online audio
Item no.: 562698
35 Beautiful Pieces
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 659343
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 346649
Last Respects
for: 4 brass instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 550554
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben · Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, bassoon, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233890
for: Violin [oboe/trumpet (C)], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1848
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 335322
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 323335
Easy Arrangement for Piano
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 740262
op. 52/6
for: Violine (oder Violoncello) und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 749010
Riduzione per Organo solo
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 388914
D. 839
for: Flute [violin], piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 1490
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 658385
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 225271
Heft 3: Pfingsten – Ende des Kirchenjahres
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 496508
Archivio Bossi
for: GES-H (T) VL ORG
Item no.: 179691
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 323235
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 212568
für SSAA (Klavier nur für die Probe)
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 156047
Intonationen, Vorspiele und Begleitsätze zu Beerdigungsliedern
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 580377
Funeral music
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 661158
Klassik
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 616841
from Dialogues of the Carmelitanes
for: SSA and Organ
Buch
Item no.: 259675
Original works and arrangements for church service and concert
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat/F), organ
Organ score, 4 solo parts (C/B-flat/E-flat/F) (anthology)
Item no.: 608128
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